An article on CNN about Lang Lang. My daughter started playing at age 4, but when we moved to Silicon Valley the piano lessons/practice got disrupted a bit.

It's a challenge to keep a young child practicing. Of course it's also a challenge to keep a teenager practicing! The right Teacher is very important, as well as support from parents. My wife was so supportive of my daughter's piano practice that when my daughter's teacher mentioned we needed a Grand Piano, since it had a different feel when hitting the keys, we got one (Kawai) and I learned way to much about buying a piano :-)

Learning Chinese is very similar, it helps to have the right curriculum for learning Chinese, the parental support, and a good teacher.

Labels: Learning Chinese, piano